Posted By
JamesC
on 2002-03-11
|  1581 Support
The .d81 is 80 tracks of 40 sectors, with track 40 reserved for directory, leaving 3160 blocks available. It also supports partitioning like PC DOS. The 1581 reads an entire tack at once, so there is no interweave needed like on a 1541 or 1551. I can email more specs if you're interested.
The 1581 is a serial drive with turbo like the 1571, but uses 3 1/2" disks. I believe it is very similar to the drive in the Amiga line. The serial bus allows it to be used with any CBM serial computer from the VIC-20 through the 65 prototype. It is supported by Star Commander as of 0.82.13 beta (1998-02-22).
I have not had any problems running European emulators on my systems here in the States. When given the option, I change the frame rate from 50Hz to sync with the vertical blanking signal (WinEmu allows this) for those programs that don't run quite right on 50Hz.
James
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